In which we cheat a bit
I’ve only read about 140 pages of A Game of Thrones, actually, at which point I wasn’t hooked, just mildly interested, which is not entirely complimentary to Martin, but I suspect it’s partly because I really wasn’t in the mood for fantasy just now. I started it despite the fact that I knew it was the wrong sort of book right now, because I got this book in a bookcrossing bookring, and felt that A. I had to give it a try and B. I needed to get it done with sooner rather than later as the point of a bookring is that several people want to read the book. However, I was quite definitely not feeling like continuing past page 140, and so thought I’d better send it on and rather request it back at some point.
However, I then went on the net and discovered that this is the first of a series where the two latest titles are not even published yet. And we all know all my patience (which isn’t a big heap to start with) is currently preoccupied preventing my head exploding because of the wait for the next (and, mercifully, last) Harry Potter novel. So starting a series that I can’t finish immediately is Not a Good Idea. So I think I’ll try to get hold of some of Martin’s independent novels instead and leave A Song of Ice and Fire as «noted» and check back in 20 years or so to see if the series is complete then.
If you went on the Internet and «discovered» that the next two books following «A Game of Thrones» haven’t been published yet, then you are a complete twit. Not only two but three additional titles in the series are in print. That said, I quit after the third one upon reading many reviews that the fourth title is simply fodder.
Not the two books following, you twit (returning the compliment) – «the two latest titles». As in books 8 and 9 or something. I don’t know exactly which and frankly I don’t care, I don’t start series where I can’t lay my hands on the final volume. That is the point.
Another thing: You seriously stopped reading a series that you liked because someone else said the fourth book wasn’t very good?
I can think of a lot of interesting names to call someone who does that (one of which, incidentally, rhymes with «bad twit»), but I’ll refrain.